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Selçuk attended the budget negotiations of the Ministry of National Education and affiliated organizations in the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and made a presentation to the deputies. Affirming that with 67 performance indicators in our 2021 Budget Program, the programs will be followed with measurable objectives determined annually, “Our transition goal to single education and preschool education, distance education, earthquake reinforcement activities in schools and the workshop infrastructure of vocational secondary schools. We are increasing from TL 5.8 billion to TL 11.3 billion by 94%. In 2021; With the budget assigned to our Ministry; With the effective use of the e-learning system, curricular arrangements in line with the digitization strategy, strengthening the measurement and evaluation capacity to achieve international standards in terms of learning outcomes, providing safe educational environments, making the most of the groups disadvantaged, including women and children, benefiting from education and mainstreaming preschool education Priority will be given to developing educational environments that take into account the mental and physical development of students, to popularize Design Skills Workshops throughout the country, to create a layered and needs-based structure in foreign language education, and to support the professional development of teachers.
Regarding the EBA system, Selçuk said, “With the decision taken as a result of the recommendations of the Ministry of Health and the Scientific Committee on the course of the epidemic in our country, after the first stoppage of the 2020-2021 course, TRT EBA, the EBA platform and the live, printed classroom applications and we started the distance education process until January 4, 2021 with digital resources. All upcoming issues will be evaluated according to the course of the epidemic process and will be announced separately. As soon as possible, I would like to express that we hope that the conditions for face-to-face training will mature. We continue to film lessons and events for TRT EBA’s primary, secondary and high school television channels, which are the main distance education channels. All of our conference broadcasts on the channels are repeated three times a day. For the students who missed the lessons, the videos are uploaded to both the EBA website and the TRT Watch platform ”.
Remembering that videos or interactive narratives, exercises, summaries, infographics, project documents, special content for teachers, more than 5,000 books and more than 240,000 questions are now at the service of EBA teachers and students, said Minister Selçuk , “The EBA platform, which has been visited approximately 12 billion 249 million times since its inception on March 23, has become the most visited website by students and teachers in the world education category. With the integration of the live classroom and alternative applications in the system, EBA has the capacity to teach approximately 3 million lessons per day. All countries have sites similar to EBA, but the site most used by teachers and students in the world is EBA. This number It is the data of international organizations. Again, based on the data, I say: only 4 countries in the world were able to establish 3 separate television channels. for their educational levels ”.
“200 thousand more tablets will be distributed until December 21”
Selçuk said:
“So far 150 thousand tablets have been distributed with the support of various organizations. Our work continues as a ministry. An additional 200 thousand tablets will be distributed until December 21, and an additional 300 thousand tablets with internet connection will be distributed until mid-January 2021. Among needy students; The distribution will continue as far as possible in line with the classifications that we have made based on official data on topics such as the family’s income level, the number of siblings of educational age, the state of attendance at face-to-face education and special education needs. In addition, we continue our work with the same strategy so that in-kind and cash IT support offered by local governments, non-governmental organizations, public and private sector organizations and civil initiatives can quickly reach students ”.
“Number of students per teacher; it fell from 28 to 16 in primary education, from 18 to 11 in secondary education “
Giving information on the number of students per teacher, Selçuk said: “The number of students per teacher; from 28 to 16 in primary education and from 18 to 11 in secondary education. Teacher occupancy rates in all geographic regions of our country have increased to a level close to each other. Norm’s staff occupancy rates are 95 percent in the Eastern Anatolia Region, 93 percent in the Southeastern Anatolia Region and 92 percent nationwide. Significant improvements were made in the economic and social rights of our teachers, and as of 07.01.2020, the salary of a first-level 9th grade teacher who started working in our Ministry was 4 thousand 369 TL and the additional tuition for time was 18.22 TL. In addition, all teachers receive a New Academic Year Preparation Allowance at the beginning of each academic year. This year our teachers received 210 TL ”.
